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Re: Objectively intelligent.
Just stumbled across this pair of quotes:
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Andrew Sullivan (2018): “Ta-Nehisi and I... there was a civility about it, an actual generosity of spirit, that transcended the boundaries of race and background.... Our engagement with each other and our readerships was a crackling and productive one... before Twitter swallowed blogging, before identity politics became completely nonnegotiable, before we degenerated into these tribal swarms of snark and loathing...”
Ta-Nehisi Coates (2018): “I got incredibly used to learning from people... quite good at their craft, who I felt, and pardon my language, were f***ing racist. And that was just the way the world was. I didn’t really have the luxury of having teachers who I necessarily felt, you know, saw me completely as a human being.... Me arguing with Andrew Sullivan about whether black people are genetically disposed to be dumber than white people. I actually had to take this seriously, you understand? I couldn’t speak... to Andrew on the blog the way I would speak to my wife about what Andrew said on the blog in the morning when it was just us...”
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